Light, thin silk fabric from China; or a rich silk fabric of the Middle Ages.
1And if she must have some sendal of Inde, well,-fateis inevitable.
2Never did Owain see an assemblage so gorgeous with satin, and silk, and sendal.
3But my Lady will give me the sendal of Inde?
4They make great quantities of sendal of different kinds, and they have much game in the neighbourhood.
5Do you think that pedlar will have any sendal (a silk stuff of extremely fine quality) of India?
6And afore him he saw a long bridge, and three pavilions stood thereon, of silk and sendal of divers hue.
7Very sweet and dainty were these maidens, and richly clothed in garments of crimson sendal, closely girt and fashioned to their bodies.
8But we look in vain for the "sails of silk and ropes of sendal," which are alone appropriate to this dream-world.
9At his heels was a little white-haired ecclesiastic in a flowing gown of scarlet sendal, expostulating and arguing in a torrent of words.
10The clothing of the horse from the front opening upwards was of bright red sendal, and from thence opening downwards was of bright yellow sendal.
11For they have plenty of silk from which they weave stuffs of silk and gold, and sendals in large quantities.
12"Sails of silk and ropes of sendal," and poetic noiseless movements only would suit these lovely Malacca Straits.